Species Ropalidia flavinoda van der Vecht, 1941
- Ropalidia variegata flavinoda van der Vecht, J. 1941. The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (=Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae) (First Part). Treubia 18(1): 103-190 [Date published 31/Aug/1941] [158].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ ♀ adult, Cape York, QLD. - Ropalidia (Icariola) mutabilis torresiana Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [96].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Iron Range, QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Kojima, J. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [373]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities near Laura, Iron Range, Somerset and Prince of Wales Is.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Social, nests of 'paper'.
General References
Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2022. Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214(4): 451–495
Kojima, J. 2000. Notes on 'types' of the Australian species of the Ropalidia interrupta complex (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Australian Entomologist 27(2): 33-36 [33] (notes on the types of Ropalidia variegata flavinoda and R. mutabilis torresiana)
History of changes
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